The Community of Santa Guerrera is a huge, genial nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, lack of airports, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 825 million Santa Guerrerans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Santa Guerreran economy, worth 59.5 trillion WA ecocide tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. Average income is 72,170 WA ecocide tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies. Crime is totally unknown. Santa Guerrera's national animal is the gato flora, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.